Friday, 6 March 2015

Expose US war-crimes!

The
UK Korean Friendship Association hosted a meeting via Skype at 1400 hours on 26th
February. KFA members from different parts of the country took part in the
seminar including KFA Official Delegate Dermot Hudson, Andy Brooks, the general
secretary of the New Communist Party and other KFA members in London and
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

All the participants strongly denounced
the hypocrisy of theUS imperialists for
their "human rights " campaign saying that, in fact, the Americans were the greatest human rights
abusers since the Second World War.

It was pointed out that during the Korean
war delegations from the British peace movement visited Korea and saw for
themselves the evidence of germ warfare committed by the US imperialists in
Korea. Books published at the time fully exposed this war-crime. The KFA members pointed out that the germ warfare
of the US was in violation of international conventions and protocols such as
the Geneva convention.

During the seminar attention was also
drawn to US war-crimes during the Vietnam war and also in during the invasion
and occupation of Iraq. US imperialism was also responsible for the Bhopal
disaster in India and for massive exploitation in the Third World.

While the CIA carried out torture
against people held in secret prisons that were not on US soil the US
government hypocritically talks about non-existent "labour camps"
which were allegedly located inside the DPRK. Dermot Hudson said that on the
nine visits to the DPRK he had never seen a labour camp while the US had
carried out illegal imprisonment and torture at their Guantanamo Bay
concentration camp on the territory of Cuba and other places throughout the
world.

The meeting
concluded by adopting the following resolution:

This
meeting has been called to expose the phony human rights campaign of US
imperialism against the Democratic People’s Republic (DPRK) and to expose the
real “human rights violator “the US itself so it may be indicted before the
court of history for its crimes against humanity. The “human rights “campaign
against the DPRK it is not just hypocritical but it also serves as a
smokescreen to divert attention away from real human rightsabusesin the USA.

These
are far numerous to list as the USA is known for invadingmany countries and also for racial
discrimination and for phone tapping and electronic eavesdropping . It is
rightly known as a “land barren of human rights “. However the most serious
human rights abusescommitted by the US
were the use of germ warfare during the Korean war against the DPRK and the
torture carried out by the CIA in the years2001-2006 .

The US imperialists waged biological
warfare in Korea in the 1950-1953 war in violation of the Geneva Protocol. The
use of biological weapons was confirmed by an International Scientific
Commission which included the respected British scientist Professor Joseph
Needham and also by confessions of captured US personnel. In carrying out
biological warfare against the Korean people the US imperialists utilised the
services of Japanese war criminal Shiro Ishii of the notorious Unit 731.

During theKorean war the US carried out over 800 germ
warfare sorties . The death toll from the US germ warfare ran into thousands .
This was a barbaric crime that was much worse than those committed by Hitler in
the second world war. We believe it is high time for the US to stop covering
this crime andcome clean finally about
it.

Recently, the US Senate issued a report
opening to the world torture committed by the CIA over a long period. Of course
the CIA had long been infamous for assassination, terrorism, dirty tricks
andinterference . It earned notoriety
as the shock brigade of US imperialism, Its role was exposed in the 1970s by a
defector from the CIA, Philip Agee. However underthe guise of the so-called “war on terror
“the CIA became a major human rights
violator committing torture and detaining suspects withouttrial.

The
CIA operated a network of secret prisons around the worldand indulging kidnapping and“rendition “ as part of its Detention and
Interrogation Programme and carried out torture of detainees. The programme
authorized CIA officers to use extreme interrogation techniques, including
sleep deprivation, water boarding , painful stress positions, dietary
manipulation, walling, 'rectal rehydration' or rectal feeding, etc. These
techniques were most barbaric.

Thus the US stands condemned and guilty
for crimes against humanity. We demand that the UN Committee on Human Rights
and other international bodies organise a full and proper investigation into
these crimes committed by the US. The UN must act in a fair and impartial way
and must not be afraid of the United States.

Adopted
unanimously by the meeting at 14.50 hrs on 26th Februqry 2015.